Posted by Dinah on November 23, 2003, at 9:56:02
In reply to Histrionic Personality Disorder, posted by Miss Honeychurch on November 23, 2003, at 9:45:29
Hi, the MMPI was designed long before the DSM IV so it wasn't designed to test for the existing personality disorders.
But they've done tons of correlation studies, and there is some scale elevations that go along with certain diagnoses. You can do a search, like mine was MMPI 2-7-8, in google. Let's see, anxiety is 7, depression is 2, what is repressed anger? do you know?
But for what it's worth, I've found that my MMPI 2-7-8 fits me better than any of the DSM IV diagnoses. Maybe DSM ought to chuck theirs and use the MMPI instead.
poster:Dinah
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